Word: geishas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. Eikichi Araki, a Princeton graduate school student in 1923), the visitors set out to see Japan. Amidst a profusion of potent Japanese beer, sake, bourbon, Scotch and all manner of native dishes, they saw Fujiyama mantled in unseasonable snow, famed shrines and spas, one geisha dance so laden with obscure symbolism that Host Osawa told his mystified buddies: "If you can understand either it or the program notes, you're a better Japanese than I am!" At the Nagoya railroad station, the Princetonians were greeted by employees of Seaweed's big Osawa Trading...
Japan, a land of startling contrasts. Its capital, Tokyo, is as big (pop. more than 8,000,000), bustling and gaudily expensive a city (a first-rate geisha party runs up to $60 per person) as any on earth. Yet a few miles outside, Japan goes back centuries to a bygone world of tiny, meticulously tilled farms, tranquil lotus ponds and brilliantly colored shrines and temples. The finest temples are at Kyoto, Nara, where the 1,349-year-old Horyuji Temple is said to be the world's oldest wooden building, and at Nikko, where the brilliant Toshogu Shrine...
...gusher-not to overlook Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Frank Sinatra, Lena Home, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, Frankie Laine, Cara Williams, Jerry Colonna, Agnes Moorehead. Sammy Davis Jr., the Four Aces, the Slate Brothers, Peter Lorre, and something that looks suspiciously like a seven-year-old geisha girl...
Silk to War. Marion Tilton's first job was to convince the textile men that silk stockings were finished. She did this by appearing in nylon stockings at factories, at geisha parties, town banquets, whereever there was an audience. She talked about the new U.S. synthetics, then dramatically rolled down her nylons, pulled, stretched, even washed them. She persuaded textile men to compete in the U.S. in fabrics...
...series of Japanese throw themselves in his way, not to save her virtue, but his dignity, and above all Japan's face. There is a hotel proprietress who uncomprehendingly scalds him in the bath ("Honorable tepid bath . . . could not have been more than 113°''). There is a geisha who saves the hotel's honor by sacrificing her own ("I whispered only these words: seventy-eight yen fifty . . . It was the price of Kodak No. 3A. anastigmatic lens, shutter for both time and instantaneous exposures"). Time has retouched Author Raucat's Japan without cropping any essentials in his cultural snapshots...